Device for controlling horses



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J. G. GILL.

DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING HORSES.

Patented Nov. 3, 1885.

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'1 4 :UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES" C. GILL, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN M. FRENCH, OFCHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING HORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,448, dated November3, 1885.

Application filed March 16, 1885. Serial No. 155,994. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES C. GILL, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements inDevices for Controlling Horses, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved device forapplication to a horses head to.support the bit and reins and enable thedriver to pull the bit upwardly into the corners of the mouth, and thuscontrol the animal more perfectly than by the ordinary arrangement ofbit and reins.

The invention consists in a nose-band 0r strap-lugs supporting pulleysor rollers at the opposite sides of the horses head, over which pulleyspass straps or rein-sections, which are connected to the bit and to thedriving-reins, said nose-band having suitable straps whereby it is heldin place on a horses head, as I will now proceed to describe.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved device. Fig. 2represents a similar view of the metal band detached. Fig. 3 representsthe position of my improved device 011 a horses head when used with anordinary bridle.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

In the drawings, a represents a nose-band composed of a strip offlexible metal, 2, having at its ends metal ears or lugs 3 3, which maybe made in the same piece with the band The metal strip and its lugshave asuitable leather casing or covering, to which are attached leatherstraps 4 4, the whole forming a band which passes around the horses headat a point above the mouth, the metal strip 2 be ing at the front andthe lugs 3 3 at the sides'of the head, over the mouth.

0 represents a strap passing over the top of the head and supporting thenose-band in substantially the position shown in Fig. 3.

d d represent rollers turning freely on studs f f, rigidly attached tothe lugs3 3, the rollers being outside of the leather casing andprojecting outwardly from the outer sides of said lugs.

h h represent rounded straps or rein-sections passing over the rollers dd, and provided at the lower ends with snap-hooks or other suitablemeans for attachment to the reins of a bridle-bit, Land at their upperends with rings, to which the driving-reins j j are attached; or, ifpreferred, the rounded sections h may be integral parts of the reins.The straps or reinsections are prevented from getting off from therollers d d by guard-plates e e,attached to the lugs 3 3 and to theouter ends of the studs on which the rollers d d are journaled. It willbe seen that when the reins are pulled by the driver the pressure on thehorses head will be exerted simultaneously at three points, viz: the bitwill be drawn upwardly against the corners of the mouth, the nose-bandwill be drawn backwardly against the nose, and the strap a will be drawndownwardly against the top of the head. It has been found that thepressures thus exerted enable the most vicious and hard-bitted horses tobe easily controlled.

The bit maybe attached in the usual manner to an ordinary bridle, asshown in Fig. 3, or

may be connected by straps or chains to the nose-band, so that theimproved device can be used to support the bit, the usual bridle beingdispensed with. The metallic strip 2, supporting the rollers d d, keepsthe rollers in position and enables them to support the pressure exertedon them by the reins. I do not limit myself, however, to the metallicstrip, as the nose-band may be made entirely of leather withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention.

I claim-- 1. The improved horse-controlling device, composed of thenose-band having the side rollers, d d, and supporting-strap c, and therein-sections adapted to move on said rollers, and having means forattachment to a bit, as set forth.

2. The nose band composed of the metal portion having the rigid studs ff, and the connecting-straps 4, and the rollers d on said studs,combined with the rein-sections adapted to move on the rollers, and thesupporting strap, as set forth.

3. The combination,with a bridle and its bit, of the controlling deviceor attachment composed of the nose-band having the side rollers,

the supportingstraoand the rein-sectionssup- In t'estimony whereof-Ihave signed my name ported by said rollers and connected to the tothisspecification, in the presen'ee'of two subbit, as set forth. scribingwitnesses, this 12th day of March,

4. The nose-band composed of the metal 1885. portion having the rigidstuds f, the connectingstraps4 4, the rollers d d on said studs, and theguard-plates e e, combined with the i Supporting-strap c, and therein-sections sup- Witnesses: ported by the rollers and kept in place bythe [o guard-plates, as set forth. r

JAMES C. GILL.

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